Dr Gladymar Perez Chacon
Epidemiologist
MBBS, DTM&H, PhD
Medicine & Health
The Kirby Institute
I am a medically trained public health scientist interested in the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases. My PhD research examined the immunogenicity, reactogenicity, and IgE-mediated immune responses of a mixed whole-cell and acellular pertussis vaccine schedule in Australian infants. Based in Perth, I contributed to studies on maternal RSV and pertussis vaccines, the off-target effects of BCG, and causal models for long COVID and catheter-associated bloodstream infections. I curren...
E-mail
gperez@kirby.unsw.edu.au
- Publications
- Grants
- Awards
- Engagement
- Can one vaccine help another? Enhancing responses to the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Western Australian infants (CIB). WA Child Research Fund (WACRF, 2022).
- Pertussis immunisation and atopic outcomes (CIA). Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Seed Funding Grant (2018).
- Forrest Research Foundation Supplementary Scholarship (2018).
- Australian Department of Education and Training – Endeavour PhD Scholarship (2018).
- Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Top-Up Scholarship (2018).
- Chancellor’s Commendation, PhD in Public Health (passed with no corrections, June 2023).
- Inaugural recipient - Stan & Jean Perron Post-PhD Career Launching Award (2022).
- Hugo Lumbreras Award - Top of the class, Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Cayetano Heredia University (Lima, Peru) & University of Alabama (Birmingham), 2016.